The Electric Fence is an application written by
Bruce Perens who's a well respected software developer. Perens is credited with coining the term "Open Source", his work includes the Linux/Debian GNU project, and he was Senior Systems Programmer at Pixar Studios.
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Originally Posted by the Bruce Perens website
Electric Fence - a debugger for malloc() buffer over-runs, a problem that can be excruciatingly difficult to find without software of this kind. Electric Fence stops a program at the offending source-code line, making a few minutes work of what could otherwise take weeks. Hundreds of people have written to thank me for this program, some even claiming that I've saved their job, etc.
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I've no idea why the entry should appear in your error logs though! :o)
Paul